Bradford Keeney, Ph.D.,

      Bradford Keeney has been called “an all-American shaman, the Marco Polo of psychology, and an anthropologist of the spirit” by the editors of Utne magazine. Elders of indigenous cultures throughout the world – including the Kalahari Bushmen, the Caribbean Shakers of St. Vincent, and the Japanese healing tradition of Seiki Jutsu – have embraced Keeney as a master of the universal life force or what he calls “shaking medicine.” In his public appearances, Dr. Keeney vividly illuminates the life-surging ecstatic forms and movements that he has absorbed first-hand through his initiation into these early and enduring cultures. A charismatic speaker, improvisational pianist and performance artist, Bradford Keeney has received enthusiastic acclaim as a unique inspirational presenter.

     Dr. Keeney is equally at ease and accomplished in the profession of psychotherapy. In addition to directing several doctoral programs in family therapy, Dr. Keeney has worked at some of the most highly respected psychotherapy institutes, including the Ackerman Institute, the Karl Menninger Center, and the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania. Internationally praised as a keynote speaker, he has presented major addresses to audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Japan, Central and South America, and Australia.

     The author of several classics in the field of psychotherapy, including Aesthetics of Change, Mind in Therapy, and Improvisational Therapy, he has also written numerous titles for the popular press, such as Everyday Soul, Shaking Out the Spirits, Bushman Shaman: Awakening the Spirit through Ecstatic Dance, Shamanic Christianity, and the forthcoming and long awaited, Shaking Medicine: The Newest and Oldest Cure on Earth.

     At the height of his public career, following a riveting performance with jazz guitarist Al Di Meola at the Miami Arena, Dr. Keeney essentially disappeared and carried out one of the broadest and most intense field studies of healing and shamanism in history, which resulted in the critically acclaimed book series, Profiles of Healing, an eleven-volume encyclopedia of the world’s healing practices. He soon thereafter became the subject of the book, American Shaman: An Odyssey of Global Healing Traditions written by Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, which won a Best Spiritual Book of 2005 award from Spirituality and Health magazine.

      Now accepted as an elder ecstatic shaman and spiritual teacher in numerous cultures throughout the world, Bradford Keeney returns to the public arena to bring unorthodox wisdom, irreverent play, and electrifying performances of how ecstatic experience and wild imagination can transform everyday life.


 AN INVITATION
   to experience
  SHAKING MEDICINE
“Dr. Keeney’s work marks the beginning of an awakening of the universal life force that is accessible to everyone.  I have personally experienced his method of moving the life force in my own body – circulating it up and down my spine, passing it through my fingertips, and feeling it tingling the tips of my toes.  It is time for each of us to become acquainted with this energizing force and bring it into our daily life.”

     Dr. Robert Fulford, featured in Dr. Andrew Weil’s Spontaneous Healing.


“I had a personal experience of Brad’s shaking power . . . He placed one of his hands on my upper back and the other opposite on my upper chest. He began to shake vigorously and apparently involuntarily throughout his entire body. His face, shoulders, torso, and feet were vibrating in some invisible power, like a wave that was continuously cresting in his body and crashing and rippling in his fingertips. I felt the trembling power pass through me . . . While receiving this beautiful ‘gift,’ I was transported to the Kalahari. I saw the tribal people with whom he had danced; I viewed their villages and landscape. I was in Africa as truly as if I had opened my eyes and found myself physically there.”

     Kenneth Cohen, author of The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing.


“The experience I had in Brad Keeney’s ceremony was very important – his hands irradiated light in my head.”

     Dr. Pierre Weil, founder of the International Holistic University of Brasilia, consultant to the United Nations, and author of 30 books.


“I felt like I was floating and wanted to move my body with speed and precision. All of my senses were intensified. I recognized this condition as being similar to the Ki activation that I had learned to do and utilize in Aikido training. The difference was that the intensity of this energy was magnitudes beyond what I had previously experienced or even imagined could be.

     Don Wright, former teacher of Ericksonian hypnotherapy at the Esalen Institute.




 Presentations by

       Bradford Keeney, Ph.D.